Repeat after me. All the well-intentioned volunteer stream monitoring efforts can be wiped out in single instances like this. Pine Creek may be a local treasure. But to local trans-national gas companies from Texas and Oklahoma, its nothing more than either and obstacle or a resource. They want to use it or get across it, that’s all. Don’t believe the billboards. And start getting involved, before everything is gone.

The vast majority of the upper Susquehanna region has been undergoing a local, organic, sustainable agriculture revolution. The frack industry will surely compromise those efforts, making it that much more difficult for the region to compete and survive, post-frack.